Mustache-protector



NITED STATES PATENT Tricea CONRAD H. VENTER, OF COBB, MISSOURI.

M USTACH E-PROTECTO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 615,003, datedNovember 29, 1898. Application filed September Z1, 1897. Serial No.652,437. (No model.)

To aZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CONRAD H. VENTER, residing at Cobb, in the county ofSt. Clair and State of Missouri, have invented a new and usefulMustache-Protector, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is in the nature of a device to be applied to the mustacheto cover and protect the same during eating, chewing tobacco, orsmoking, and for the purpose of wearing it to train it to grow towardthe sides, thus dispensing with the use of waX.

Tith this object in View my invention consists in the improvedconstruction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter fullydescribed, and afterward speciiically pointed out in the claim.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention mostnearly appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed todescribe its construction and operation, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-nFigure l is a perspective view of the head of a person wearing amustache-protector made in accordance with my invention. 2 is aperspective sectional view on a plane passing transversely through themiddle of the protector and comb. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of myimproved mustache-protector. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the protector,bows or temples being shown attached to the ends thereof for the purposeof securing the protector in position, as indicated by the dotted lines.Fig. 5 is a profile view of a part of a face, showing in transversesection my improved proiector applied to a mustache.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts wherever they occur in thedifferent iigures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by letters, A is a comb the teeth of which arejoined at the bottom, as at B in Fig. 8, and are pointed upward. Thiscomb is curved, as shown in Fig. 4, to iit snugly against the upper lipof the wearer, and secured to the bottom of the comb is a hood orprotector C, which passes outward, upward, and inward until its innerupper edge D reaches the lip, just below the nose and above themustache, thus entirely rig.

inclosing the mustache when the teeth of the comb are forced upwardthrough the hairs of the mustache in contact with the lip. This hood orguard is curved to give it an artistic appearance and to a form to whichthe wearer desires to train his mustache, the ends being curved inward,downward, outward, and upward to form curved rests E, in which to placethe ends of the mustache in order to train it, as best shown in Fig. l.

The comb and hood or protector will preferably be made of one piece ofcelluloid or other suitable material and of iiesh color, so as to be aslittle noticeable as possible and is intended to be worn while eatingfor the purpose of protecting the mustache and preventing the engagementthereon of particles of food, especially when eating soups and otherliquid foods having solids therein. It is also intended to be worneither day or night for the purpose of training the mustache to theshape of the interior of the protector or for protecting the mustachewhile smoking or chewing tobacco.

With heavy closely-grown mustaches the device as herein described willbe held in position without other means of attachment; but as anadditional security against loss or breakage by dropping off I providetemples or bows F at the ends of the guard or protector, extendingrearward and provided with hooks G to pass behind the ears of the wearerafter the manner of the temples or bows of spectacles.

While I have illustrated what I now consider the best means for carryingout my invention, I wish it to be understood that I do not restrictmyself to the exact details of construction shown and described, buthold that any slight changes or variations such as might suggestthemselves to the ordinary mechanic will clearly fall within the limitand scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is- Alnustache-protector made of a single piece of celluloid or likematerial, comprising a comb with upwardlyextending teeth adapted to bepassed through the hairs of the mustache in contact with the lip, and aguard or IOO protection for the outer ends of the mustache,substantially as described.

CONRAD H. VENTER.

hood secured to the lower edge of the comb adapted to encompass themustache, the ceutral upper portion of said guard or hood being eut awayon a curved line below the nose, and the outer ends of said guard orhood be- Witnesses:

ing bent inward and downward and having l ROBERT II. SHEEKS,

FRAZIER BRISTOW.

their extremities curled over to form rests and

